New Business Underwriter

2 days ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Lawes Group Full time

**Contract - Permanent**
**Salary - Circa £60,000**
**Location -Birmingham, flexible working locations**
**Industry - Insurance Underwriting**

**Role Summary and Purpose**

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**
- Generate New Business whilst writing within risk selection, appetite, and authority.
- Follow our broker engagement processes to maximise opportunity
- Achieve GWP, profit and expense targets by managing and operating to the Key Performer Indicator targets of the region
- Establishing and maintaining strong personal relationships with key staff across the region’s brokers.
- Display strong trading behaviours and skills that support conversion and the strengthening of our broker relationships
- Take ownership for continuous personal improvement within an environment that actively encourages and supports it, including knowledge of relevant technical matters
- Contribute to the technical knowledge of the Company by feeding back technical and commercial market intelligence to the Regional Director & wider team.
- Work collaboratively and constructively with both team colleagues and those in other parts of the organisation.

**Role Requirements & Skills**

**Skills / Competencies**
- Ideally at least 5 years’ experience in underwriting
- Previous New Business experience preferred
- Proven broker relationships
- Proven Track Record in Underwriting Development
- Ability to negotiate flexibly and appropriately
- Effective selling skills
- Demonstrates a range of influencing and negotiation approaches
- Risk perception/Risk selection skills
- Pricing of risk accordingly
- Successfully developing effective trading relationships
- Consistent achieving of goals and objectives
- Experience working across functions / matrix organisation to collaborate and build strong relationships
- Operational effectiveness and efficiency
- Clear and effective communication

**Qualifications**
- Minimum A level standard preferred
- Professional Certification - progress towards ACII preferred

**Experience**

The job holder will ideally have at least 5 years’ experience in the Commercial Insurance industry, strong interpersonal skills and work in a structured, organised and planned manner.

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